001 - LATL W Line Car 1405 N. Figueroa St. & Buena Vista Terrace 19480207. on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1405 on North Figueroa Street and Buena Vista Terrace, February 7, 1948.
“ What is a researcher to do when the historic caption contradicts the information in the historic photograph? Here at the Archives, we encounter this occasionally in our work and have to remember that sometimes people in the past made mistakes. Just because something is written in beautiful 19th century penmanship doesn’t mean it is always correct. ”
008 LATL 5 Line Car 1423 Northbound At Private Right of Way (near 67th St) & Crenshaw Bl.19550507 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1423 on Line 5, near 67th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard. May 7, 1955.
Beach Bus, 1974 (by metrolibrarian)
Beach Bus, Southern California Rapid Transit District (RTD), 1974.
Promotional video. The Southern California Rapid Transit District launched its summer “Street Fleet” in June 1974 “on four new bus lines (605, 606, 607 and 608) to carry people from different parts of Los Angeles County to Santa Monica.
The motor coaches were specially decorated to look like submarines …
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002 - LATL W Line Car 1505 At N. Figueroa & York Bl. 19480215 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1505 on Line W at North Figueroa Street and York Boulevard, February 15, 1948.
003 - LATL W Line Car 1506 N. Figueroa St. & Buena Vista Terrace 19471124 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1506 on Line W at North Figueroa Street and Buena Vista Terrace, November 24, 1947.
007 - LATL W Line Car 1544 N. Figueroa St & Meridian19480215 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1544 on Line W on North Figueroa Street, February 15, 1948.
006 - LATL W Line Car 1511 End of Line At Buena Vista Terrace 19471124 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1511 at Buena Vista Terrace. November 24, 1947.
Los Angeles City Hall.
Photographer: Ansel Adams.
Circa 1940.
